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Vishay Intertechnology was founded in 1962 by Dr. Felix Zandman, with a loan from his cousin Alfred P. Slaner. The Company was named after Dr. Zandman’s ancestral village in Lithuania, in memory of family members who perished in the Holocaust. The Company’s initial product portfolio consisted of foil resistors and foil resistance strain gages. In 1985, having grown from a start-up into the world’s leading manufacturer of these products, the Company began a series of strategic acquisitions to become a broad-line manufacturer of electronic components. Today, Vishay Intertechnology is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components.

SOLUTIONS FOR GROWTH

Vishay is very well positioned to provide components for macroeconomic growth drivers such as connectivity, mobility, and sustainability. Through its R&D, engineering, quality programs, and sales initiatives, it generates a steady stream of innovative components to enable designers to create new generations of end products.

In connectivity-related products such as tablets, smartphones, and wearables, Vishay components support power management, wireless connectivity, display interface, and touch screen controls; provide protection from the electrostatic discharge (ESD) that can cause component and system failure; and perform other functions. Vishay components are also found in wireless charging devices, mobile payment systems and other near-field communications systems, servers, network devices, base stations, solid-state drives, telematics systems, and other products and systems in our increasingly interconnected world. Vishay’s latest technologies and components support the development of 5G network technologies and play important roles in Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

In the area of mobility, Vishay components support a wide range of functions in electric power steering, including electromagnetic interference (EMI) filtering, quiescent current switch-off, three-phase motor switching, current sensing, and voltage division. Vishay components also are used in transmission control units, power management, boardnet stabilization and voltage conversion, exhaust systems, start-stop systems, climate controls, braking and safety, lighting, infotainment, proximity and gesture recognition, and more. In hybrid and fully electric vehicles, Vishay components are used in main inverters, high-voltage bus systems, energy recuperation, and charging systems. Advanced driver assistance systems are supported by optical sensors. They also support Car-to-X communications, high frequency transceivers, and radar devices. Power capacitors, inductors, and high power resistors are used in high speed trains, buses, aircraft, and ships, as well as intralogistics systems, in modern infrastructure.

In the area of sustainability, Vishay components support the new generation of factory automation – Industry 4.0 – to enable robots with position sensors and encoders, enable haptic response, increase the efficiency of motor drives, and enable automated transport systems in warehouses. Vishay components are also used in alternative energy products and systems, such as the main inverters, power filters, and pitch and system controls in wind turbines. Components in wind turbine systems include high power semiconductor modules, high voltage MOSFETs, power ICs, diodes and rectifiers, optical isolators, shunt resistors, crowbar resistors, inductors, and power capacitors. Vishay components are used in solar panels and inverters, and for on-panel power conversion. They are used in smart meters and smart grids, power transmission and distribution systems, power grid quality stabilization, oil and gas exploration equipment, energy harvesting, and more.

STRATEGIC ACQUISITIONS

2019     Bi-Metallix

2018     Ultrasource

2014     Capella Microsystems

Holy Stone Polytech

2013    MCB Industrie

2012    HiRel Systems

2011    Huntington Electric: Resistor businesses

2008    KEMET: Wet tantalum capacitor business

2007    International Rectifier: PCS business

2002    BCcomponents

Beyschlag

2001    General Semiconductor

Infineon: Infrared components business

Mallory (NACC)

Tansitor

2000    Cera-Mite

Electro-Films

Spectrol

1998    Siliconix

Telefunken

1994    Vitramon

1993    Roederstein

1992    Sprague

1988    Sfernice

1987    Draloric

1985    Dale

Product Category

一、Semiconductors

MOSFETs（Low/ Middle/High Voltage）, Power IC, Analog IC, Diodes and Rectifiers , Discrete Thyristors,  Power Modules and Optoelectronics

二、Passive Components

Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors and Other Magnetics, Angular and Linear Sensors, Position Sensors(Non-contacting),  Temperature Sensors